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Sid and Nancy
Sid and Nancy | |
US theatrical release poster
Directed by | Alex Cox |
Produced by | Eric Fellner |
Written by | Alex Cox Abbe Wool |
Starring | Gary Oldman Chloe Webb David Hayman Debby Bishop Andrew Schofield |
Music by | Joe Strummer Pray for Rain The Pogues |
Cinematography | Roger Deakins |
Edited by | David Martin |
Distributed by | Samuel Goldwyn Company (1986, original) MGM (DVD, 2003) |
Release dates
Running time
112 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | $4 million |
Box office | $2,826,523 |
Sid and Nancy (also known as Sid and Nancy: Love Kills[1]) is a 1986 British biopic directed by Alex Cox. The film portrays the life of Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman), bassist of the seminal punk rock band the Sex Pistols, and his relationship with girlfriend Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb). Despite failing to recoup its production budget at the box office, the film was received favourably by most critics and has attained cult classic status.[2]
The film opens in 12 October 1978, with several police officers dragging Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman) out of the Hotel Chelsea following the death of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb). Vicious is soon driven to a police station and upon arrival is asked to describe what happened.
A little more than a year earlier in 1977, Vicious and Johnny Rotten (Andrew Schofield) meet Spungen, a groupie who has come to London to bed the Sex Pistols. Vicious dismisses her at first, but starts dating her after she sells him heroin; it is implied that she introduces him to the drug. The two fall deeply in love, but their self-destructive, drug-fuelled relationship frays Vicious' relationship with the rest of the band, which eventually breaks up in 17 January 1978, in the midst of a disastrous American tour.
Vicious attempts to start a solo career with Spungen as his manager, only to be dismissed as a has-been. By now, both he and Spungen are heavily addicted to heroin, and Spungen has spiraled into a deep depression. It ends tragically one night when, during an argument in which Vicious announces his plans to stop using heroin and return to England, a suicidal Spungen begs him to kill her. They fight in a drug-induced haze, and he stabs her, although whether or not it was intentional is left to interpretation. They fall asleep and later Spungen awakes and stumbles into the bathroom, where she collapses and dies. Sid is bailed out temporarily by his mother who is also a heroin addict. After getting a pizza, some kids convince him to dance with them. In the meanwhile, a taxi with Nancy riding in the back seat picks Vicious up and drives away as Sid and Nancy embrace. The postscript then says that Vicious died of a heroin overdose: "Nancy and Sid R.I.P."
- Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious
- Chloe Webb as Nancy Spungen
- David Hayman as Malcolm McLaren
- Debby Bishop as Phoebe
- Andrew Schofield as Johnny Rotten
- Xander Berkeley as Bowery Snax, drug dealer
- Courtney Love as Gretchen
- Perry Benson as Paul Cook
- Tony London as Steve Jones
- Barbara Coles as Reporter
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The film, originally titled Love Kills, is largely based on the mutually destructive, drug- and sex-filled relationship between Vicious and Spungen. Vicious' mother, Anne Beverley, initially tried to prevent the film from being made. After meeting with Cox, however, she decided to help the production; for example, Beverley gave Oldman Vicious' own heavy metal chain and padlock to wear in the film. Some of the supporting characters are composites, invented to streamline the plot.
Cox offered Oldman the part of Vicious after seeing him play the lead role of Scopey in a 1984 production of Edward Bond's The Pope's Wedding. Oldman twice turned down the role before accepting it, because, in his own words: "I wasn't really that interested in Sid Vicious and the punk movement. I'd never followed it. It wasn't something that interested me. The script I felt was banal and 'who cares' and 'why bother' and all of that. And I was a little bit sort-of with my nose in the air and sort-of thinking 'well the theatre – so much more superior' and all of that." He reconsidered based on the salary and the urging of his agent.[3] He lost weight to play the emaciated Vicious by eating nothing but "steamed fish and lots of melon", but was briefly hospitalized when he lost too much. Oldman later dismissed the performance, saying: "I don't think I played Sid Vicious very well".[4]
Courtney Love recorded an infamous video audition in which she exclaimed, "I am Nancy Spungen." Cox was impressed by Love's audition, but has said the film's investors insisted on an experienced actress for the co-leading role. Therefore, instead, Cox wrote the minor role of Gretchen, one of Sid and Nancy's New York junkie friends, specifically for her benefit. Cox would later cast Love as one of the leads in his movie Straight to Hell (1987). Coincidentally, Love would be compared to Spungen later in life on account of her marriage to Kurt Cobain.
In his 2007 autobiography, Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash revealed that the casting director hired all five members of Guns N' Roses as extras for a club scene, having coincidentally scouted them in different locations without their knowledge. He said "all of us showed up to the first day of casting, like 'Hey...what are you doing here?'" However, Slash was the only one in the group to stay for the entire shoot.
Webb and Oldman improvised the dialogue heard in the scene leading up to Spungen's death but based it on interviews and other materials available to them. The stabbing scene is fictionalized and based only on conjecture. Cox told the NME: "We wanted to make the film not just about Sid Vicious and punk rock, but as an anti-drugs statement, to show the degradation caused to various people is not at all glamorous."
The original music is by Pray for Rain, Joe Strummer, and The Pogues. A track by Tears For Fears ("Swords and Knives") was also recorded for the film but was rejected by the filmmakers for not being "punk" enough. The track later surfaced on the band's Seeds of Love album in 1989.[5]
Prominent musicians made appearances in the film, including: Circle Jerks, Courtney Love, Iggy Pop, Nico, and Edward Tudor-Pole of Tenpole Tudor.
The film was rated R in the US for "drug use, language, violence, sexuality, and nudity".
Reception and legacy[edit]
Sid and Nancy received generally positive reviews from critics. From the reviews collected from notable publications by popular review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an overall approval rating of 91%, with the consensus, "Visceral, energetic, and often very sad, Sid & Nancy is also a surprisingly touching love story, and Gary Oldman is outstanding as the late punk rock icon Sid Vicious."[6] Roger Ebert gave Sid and Nancy four-out-of-four in his review for The Chicago Sun-Times, writing that Cox and his crew "pull off the neat trick of creating a movie full of noise and fury, and telling a meticulous story right in the middle of it."[7][8] Appearing on The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers, Ebert said, to agreement from Rivers and applause from the audience, that Oldman "definitely won't be [Oscar] nominated – and should be", this being for the reason that "Hollywood will not nominate an actor for portraying a creep, no matter how good the performance is".[9] In a subsequent article on Oldman, Ebert referred to the movie's titular couple as "punk rock's Romeo and Juliet."[10]
In his book Sid Vicious: Rock N' Roll Star, Malcolm Butt describes Webb's performance as Spungen as "intense, powerful, and most important of all, believable." Oldman's portrayal of Vicious was ranked #62 in Premiere magazine's "100 Greatest Performances of All Time".[11] Issue #117 of Uncut magazine (February 2007) ranked Gary Oldman as #8 in its "10 Best actors in rockin' roles" list, describing his portrayal as a "hugely sympathetic reading of the punk figurehead as a lost and bewildered manchild."[12] In 2011, Total Film said of the performance, "It's an early high point in Oldman's varied career that showed just what the young actor was made of. Playing the part of an icon known and beloved by many comes with its own demands and risks, but Oldman more than rises to the challenge, completely transforming into the troubled punk bassist." The magazine described Oldman's rendition of "My Way" as "fantastic – [it] might even be better than Sid's original version."[13] In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked Sid and Nancy as the third-best rock movie ever made,[14] and in 2014, ShortList named it the ninth-greatest music biopic of all time.[15]
Not all reviews of the film were positive. Leslie Halliwell had little praise for the movie: "Some have said stimulating, most have preferred revolting. Consensus, an example of the dregs to which cinema has been reduced." He also cited a line from a review that appeared in Sight & Sound: "Relentlessly whingeing performances and a lengthy slide into drugs, degradation and death make this a solemnly off-putting moral tract."[16]
Andrew Schofield was ranked #1 in Uncut magazine's "10 Worst actors in rockin' roles", which described his performance as Sex Pistols lead singer Johnny Rotten (real name John Lydon) as a "short-arse Scouse Bleasdale regular never once looking like he means it".[12] Commentary on the Criterion DVD dismisses the film's portrayal of Lydon as wholly inaccurate. Paul Simonon of The Clash also criticised the movie for portraying Lydon as "some sort of fat, bean-slurping idiot."[17]
Although not a box office success, generating $2,826,523 on a $4 million budget, Sid and Nancy has become a cult hit;[15][18][19] Yahoo! Movies described the film as a "poignant and uncompromising cult classic".[20]
John Lydon's reaction[edit]
Lydon commented on the film in his 1994 autobiography, Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs:
I cannot understand why anyone would want to put out a movie like Sid and Nancy and not bother to speak to me; Alex Cox, the director, didn't. He used as his point of reference - of all the people on this earth - Joe Strummer! That guttural singer from The Clash? What the fuck did he know about Sid and Nancy? That's probably all he could find, which was really scraping the bottom of the barrel. The only time Alex Cox made any approach toward me was when he sent the chap who was playing me over to New York where I was. This actor told me he wanted to talk about the script. During the two days he was there, he told me that the film had already been completed. The whole thing was a sham. It was a ploy to get my name used in connection with the film, in order to support it.
To me this movie is the lowest form of life. I honestly believe that it celebrates heroin addiction. It definitely glorifies it at the end when that stupid taxi drives off into the sky. That's such nonsense. The squalid New York hotel scenes were fine, except they needed to be even more squalid. All of the scenes in London with the Pistols were nonsense. None bore any sense of reality. The chap who played Sid, Gary Oldman, I thought was quite good. But even he only played the stage persona as opposed to the real person. I don't consider that Gary Oldman's fault because he's a bloody good actor. If only he had the opportunity to speak to someone who knew the man. I don't think they ever had the intent to research properly in order to make a seriously accurate movie. It was all just for money, wasn't it? To humiliate somebody's life like that - and very successfully - was very annoying to me. The final irony is that I still get asked questions about it. I have to explain that it's all wrong. It was all someone else's fucking fantasy, some Oxford graduate who missed the punk rock era. The bastard.
When I got back to London, they invited me to a screening. So I went to see it and was utterly appalled. I told Alex Cox, which was the first time I met him, that he should be shot, and he was quite lucky I didn't shoot him. I still hold him in the lowest light. Will the real Sid please stand up?
As for how I was portrayed, well, there's no offense in that. It was so off and ridiculous. It was absurd. Champagne and baked beans for breakfast? Sorry. I don't drink champagne. He didn't even speak like me. He had a Scouse accent. Worse, there's a slur implied in the movie that I was jealous of Nancy, which I find particularly loathsome. There is that implication that I feel was definitely put there. I guess that's Alex Cox showing his middle class twittery. It's all too glib, it's all too easy.[21]
Strummer claimed to have met with Alex Cox for the first time after the completion of the film, at a wrap party,[22] but this is not entirely accurate. The wrap party was actually the conclusion of the London phase of the filming, which was followed by filming in Los Angeles and New York City, performed by a largely different crew.[23] The pair's meeting involved discussion over soundtrack work for the film, not the film's script.
In a later interview, Lydon was asked the question, "Did the movie get anything right?" to which he replied: "Maybe the name Sid."[24] Cox's attitude toward his subjects was indeed unapologetically negative, writing that "Sid had sold out, contributed nothing of value, died an idiot."[23] Cox went on to say that one of the reasons he was attracted to the project was that he was afraid that if someone else made it, it would portray its subjects as "real exemplars of Punk like I am; rather than sold-out traitors to it."[23] He acknowledged that Lydon's hatred of the movie was "understandable, given that it was based on incidents from his life and centered around one of his friends."[25] The other remaining Pistols have been far less outspoken about the movie than Lydon, although Lydon claimed that Paul Cook was more upset over the movie than he was.[26]
According to Cox, both he and Andrew Schofield (who played Lydon in the film) did meet with Lydon before the filming. According to Cox, Lydon noticed that Schofield was, like Cox, a Liverpudlian, rather than a Londoner like Lydon, and encouraged him to play the part as a Scouser rather than a Londoner. Cox took this as a sign that both of them agreed that it would be better to portray a more fictionalized version of the characters rather than a cold re-telling of facts. Cox claims that Lydon drank heavily at these meetings, which may explain why Lydon did not recall them. Cox stated in a book that contrary to Lydon's claims, his meeting with Schofield was not after the film's completion, but rather before Schofield had even been given the part. He was offered the part the next day.[23]
Awards and nominations[edit]
São Paulo International Film Festival
- Critics Award: 1986[27]
National Society of Film Critics
- Best Actress: Chloe Webb - 1986[28]
Evening Standard British Film Awards
- Most Promising Newcomer - Actor: Gary Oldman - 1987
Boston Society of Film Critics
- Best Actress: Chloe Webb - 1987[29]
- Best Make Up Artist: Peter Frampton - 1987[30]
The official soundtrack contains no songs sung by either the Sex Pistols or Sid Vicious. Much of the actual film's soundtrack (as opposed to soundtrack album) was composed by Joe Strummer, who was contractually limited to contribute only two songs. Nevertheless, he continued to contribute more (unpaid) work because of his interest in the project and composing for film in general. This additional material was credited to fictitious bands in the credits, so as to keep Strummer's label, Epic Records, from knowing what he had done. Another large portion of the music was composed by The Pogues.[23]
Song | Artist |
"Love Kills" (Title Track) | Joe Strummer |
"Haunted" | The Pogues |
"Pleasure and Pain" | Steve Jones |
"Chinese Choppers" | Pray for Rain |
"Love Kills" | Circle Jerks |
"Off the Boat" | Pray for Rain |
"Dum Dum Club" | Joe Strummer |
"Burning Room" | Pray for Rain |
"She Never Took No for an Answer" | John Cale |
"Junk" | The Pogues |
"I Wanna Be Your Dog" | Gary Oldman |
"My Way" | Gary Oldman |
"Taxi to Heaven" | Pray for Rain |
Sid and Nancy was first released on DVD by The Criterion Collection in the late 1990s; this version has since gone out of print.[citation needed] MGM has since regained home video distribution rights and released an edition on DVD in 2003.[citation needed]
- ^ http://lovekillssite.webs.com/Sid%20And%20Nancy%20Cover.jpg[dead link]
- ^ See: Reception and legacy.
- ^ Gary Oldman interview by Terry Gross. Fresh Air. National Public Radio. 12 February 1998.
- ^ Hochman, David (25 June 2014). "Playboy Interview: Gary Oldman". Playboy. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
- ^ Thrills, Adrian (1990). Tears For Fears - The Seeds of Love. London: Virgin Books. p. 44. ISBN 0-86369-329-6.
- ^ Sid & Nancy Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes
- ^ Sid & Nancy
- ^ Roger Ebert's Four Star Movie Guide by Roger Ebert. (1988, Andrews & McMeel) p.280.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (17 October 1986). "Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel". The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers. Season 1. Episode 7. Fox Network. Fox Entertainment Group.
I tell you who definitely won't be [Oscar] nominated – and should be, and that's a young British actor named Gary Oldman, who plays Sid Vicious – the punk rocker – in Sid and Nancy. And he's going to fall prey to the Star 80 syndrome, which is why Eric Roberts wasn't nominated [as Paul Snider]: Hollywood will not nominate an actor for portraying a creep, no matter how good the performance is.
- ^ Roger Ebert's Four Star Movie Guide by Roger Ebert. (1988, Andrews & McMeel) p.383.
- ^ Listology: Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time
- ^ a b Uncut magazine, issue #117, February 2007
- ^ Winning, Josh. Best Movies: The film chameleon's greatest moments. Total Film. 11 April 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
- ^ "Movies that rock". Chicago Tribune. Tribune Publishing. 12 November 2003. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
- ^ a b "10 Best Music Biopics". ShortList. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
- ^ Halliwell's Film Guide: 11th Edition by Leslie Halliwell, edited by John Walker. (1995, HarperCollins) p.1033.
- ^ 3am Interview: AN INTERVIEW WITH PAUL SIMONON
- ^ Hanlon, Mary (6 April 2009). "The Chelsea Hotel on Film". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
- ^ Chloe Webb. OVGuide. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
- ^ Gary Oldman – Biography. Yahoo! Movies. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
- ^ John Lydon, with Keith and Kent Zimmerman (1994). Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs. Hodder & Staughton Ltd. pp. 150–151. ISBN 9780312428136.
- ^ DEATH OF A PUNK - JOE STRUMMER (1952-2002) Clash co-founder dies of heart attack. :: hightimes.com
- ^ a b c d e Cox, Alex (2008). X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker. Soft Skull Press. p. 96. ISBN 9781593761936.
- ^ Rotten to the Core: An Interview With John Lydon
- ^ Alex Cox - SID & NANCY
- ^ Fodderstompf | Press Archives | Cut Magazine, November 1987
- ^ 10ª Mostra Internacional de São Paulo
- ^ National Society of Film Critics - Past Awards
- ^ Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Past Awards
- ^ 1987 BAFTA Film Make-Up Artist
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- Criterion Collection essay by Jon Savage
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If you have been following my blog, you may think you have seen this card before. Guess what, you have and then you haven't. :P. Back in September last year, I made this shaped card using the Print-and Cut technique. Today's card was made with the same image but it has an extra element. It's a Pop-up popcorn!
Isn't that fun? I couldn't stop laughing and playing with the card after I was done making it. It doesn't take that much to amuse me. :-D
I used Joy's Yummy Puns for the hidden message and Make-the-Cut to cut the whole thing with my Cricut. The popcorn is from the Lettering Delights' Sugar Rush Clipart set.
I love that the clipart sets have both the colored and uncolored versions of the same image. Using Make-the-Cut, I Pixel Trace the black and white image to bring it into the mat. I used Break to isolate the single popcorn and welded a copy of it to 2 rounded rectangles to form the pull tab. The "slit" was made by welding a shadow of the popcorn with the rest of the popcorn cluster. Lastly, the colored image was added as a texture for the purpose of printing.
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Lampkin, Dr Nicolas (1999) Public Support for the Development of Organic Farming in Europe. University of Wales Aberystwyth, Institute of Rural Sciences.
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The growth of organic farming in the European Union and the reasons for supporting organic farming are examined in the context of policy support for organic farming under EC Reg. 2078/92 (the agri-environment programme) and the structural measures (including the development by some countries of integrated action plans combining these measures). The potential for the future expansion of organic farming and the pre-conditions necessary for this to happen are considered in the context of the Agenda 2000 commodity measures and the Rural Development Regulation.
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Keywords: | European Union, growth, expansion, organic farming, agr-environment |
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I am currently working on a large winforms application (most likely the last winforms app before I make the transition to WPF). I am writing the application in a top down fashion, which means I drive out the tests for the presenters, and then move down through the corresponding layers to get a good vertical slice of functionality. When it comes to the development of the user interface I am using a command based UI to allow me to easily drive the testing of the screens easily from a unit test. One thing that I often need to do, is cause a UI component to trigger one of its own events to see if the command in question will be triggered. In order to allow for a bit of "guidance" I wrote a class that allows me to quickly trigger events on UI components. The following code snippet shows a usage:
EventTrigger.trigger_event<Events.ControlEvents>(x => x.OnKeyPress(new KeyPressEventArgs('A')), target);
I am making use of an expression tree to determine which event I want the target control to raise. This is easily done because most (almost all) UI components in both the .Net framework and 3rd party Winforms libraries follow a convention of having a method named "OnEventName" which is usually a protected method that the control itself can call when it wants to raise its event. The EventTrigger class lives in my test utilities and for my current application I have a set of Events classes which correspond to some of the third party, and raw .net, control I want to raise events on, here is a trimmed down section of one of the events class:
public class Events
public interface ControlEvents : IEventTarget
void OnEnter(EventArgs args);
void OnKeyPress(KeyPressEventArgs args);
public interface FormEvents : ControlEvents
void OnActivated(EventArgs e);
void OnDeactivate(EventArgs e);
static public void trigger_event
Notice I am making use of the IEventTarget interface to basically simply constrain the incoming expression to be one based on one of the interfaces that lives in the "Events" class. The first argument "Expression<Action static public void trigger_event { var method_call_expression = expression_representing_event_to_raise.Body.downcast_to<MethodCallExpression>(); var method_args = get_parameters_from(method_call_expression.Arguments); var method_name = method_call_expression.Method.Name; var method = target.GetType().GetMethod(method_name, binding_flags); Debug.Assert(target != null,"The target to raise the event on cannot be null"); Debug.Assert(method != null,"There is no method called {0}, on a {1}".format_using(method_name,target.GetType().proper_name())); method.Invoke(target, method_args.ToArray()); } var method_name = method_call_expression.Method.Name; var method = target.GetType().GetMethod(method_name, binding_flags); method.Invoke(target, method_args.ToArray()); var method_args = get_parameters_from(method_call_expression.Arguments);
This is test utility code, so I am able to make a lot of assumptions about how I am going to be consuming and using it. For starters I know that the ExpressionTree coming is is going to represent a MethodCallExpression. This post is only a small intro into the amazing concept of expression trees, if they are not something you are comfortable with, there is no time like the present to start playing around with them.
With a MethodCallExpression I have access to the MethodInfo object that contains information about the target method to call (this allows me to reflectively match upto the protected method on the target I want to raise the event on:
Once I have the actual method to invoke, it still needs to be invoked with the correct arguments:
The act of getting the arguments is the interesting part to this code (and a little gentle introduction to the world of ExpressionTrees for those of you who are not using them yet). The following line:
method_call_expression.Arguments is actually a collection of Expressions also. If you look back at the line of code that is using this the original trigger method, we'll decompose it so that you can get a better idea of the expression tree created to represent the call to the event:
EventTrigger.trigger_event<Events.ControlEvents>(x => x.OnKeyPress(new KeyPressEventArgs('A')), target);
static IEnumerable<object> get_parameters_from(IEnumerable<Expression> parameter_expressions)
foreach (var expression in parameter_expressions)
if (can_handle(expression)) yield return get_value_from_evaluating(expression);
else cannot_handle(expression);
static EventTrigger()
expression_handlers = new Dictionary<ExpressionType, Func<Expression, object>>();
expression_handlers[ExpressionType.New] = instantiate_value;
expression_handlers[ExpressionType.MemberAccess] = get_value_from_member_access;
expression_handlers[ExpressionType.Constant] = get_constant_value;
static object get_value_from_evaluating(Expression expression)
return expression_handlersexpression.NodeType;
static public object get_constant_value(Expression expression)
return expression.downcast_to<ConstantExpression>().Value;
static object instantiate_value(Expression expression)
var new_expression = expression.downcast_to<NewExpression>();
var args = new_expression.Arguments.Select(constructor_argument_expression => get_value_from_evaluating(constructor_argument_expression));
return new_expression.Constructor.Invoke(args.ToArray());
In the second line we are actually evaluating each of the constructor arguments expressions one at a time and having them also evaluated by the get_value_from_evaluating method. Because of the nested nature of expression trees, depending on the type of Expression that was passed in, this handles recursive traversal of the expression.
Once all of the arguments to the constructor have been evaluated, we can then invoke the expressions Constructor (which is a ConstructorInfo) to create the item. In our example here, it will cause the creation of a new KeyPressEventsArgs with the character of 'A' (the character was evaluated using the ConstantExpression we discussed earlier).
When it comes to testing a new control I can just create a new nested interface in my Events class, add public versions of the protected methods that I want to invoke (along with the correct arguments) and then I'm off to the races!!
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1. Petey had a bad season last year, no doubt. However, many Jaguar fans would gladly tell you how bad Salaam was for a couple years as well. Also, just because overall sacks were down doesn't mean that I was dreaming when I saw Salaam getting thrown around like a rag doll most of the year.
2. We're going to start the season with a second year CB, Reeves (who has only started about 12 games in his career) and a Div. II rookie- as our top three CBs, probably.... Somehow, that situation doesn't encourage members of this board to want a stable veteran like Faggins... Yet, our OL has very good depth this year with plenty of tackle options to be explored, and people scream over keeping Salaam... I just don't get it!
1. After 2 years of decent (nobody said great) play, I don't care what Jacksonville fans think of Salaam any more than Patriots fans care what we (or Philly fans) think of Jabar Gaffney. I don't see Gibbs and Kubiak sitting down with him and saying "We just realized you sucked two years ago in J'ville, so we're gonna have to let you go.
2. Reeves has only started 14 games, but he's played in 60 games. I don't know how many of those were ST only, and how many were as a replacement or nickel, but I do know he's gone through 4 Training Camps, and 4 years worth of in-season practices and game review/prep.
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What's the best ghetto movie? Which is the best movie for the hood? Don't agree with the list? Vote for an existing item you think should be ranked higher or if you are a logged in, add a new item for others to vote on or create your own version of this list.The Top Ten
1Boyz N Tha Hood
The best movie I've ever seen... Ice Cube is dope.
It shows the real life in south central. The end is really emotional
It shows the real life in south central. The end is really emotional
One of the most powerful movie I ever seen, the movie just don't show how people in the ghetto is living, they even show how you survive.
brought some great memories back
Love that movie its still funny after all these years.
Still one of the most funniest movies.
I think this is an amazing film and 2pac has had a deep impact on all the world in everything he has done
This has always been one of my favourite movies!
4Menace II Society
best ghetto movie ive ever seen man better whatch this is some real s***
Best one I have ever seen
Good story my girlfriend began getting tears while we watched it
Good story my girlfriend began getting tears while we watched it
It realistic in the since that shi is run that way! I give major props to them yungsters that be putting it down like that. but overall man we gotto find a new way of living!
[Newest]It has the action and those emotional parts in it this is my second favourite movie and I've watched a lot of movies love this movie five stars
5Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood
This movie made me laugh aha its one of does movies wer yuh laugh and feel sorry of the people that get hurt but can stop laughing at it! So if yuh want a funny movie diz it it!
6Ghetto Stories
My Ghetto Stories... FREE BOOSIE!
7Baby Boy
8Training Day
Pretty good movie, showing Denzel in a bad mofo edition. I highly recommend watching it.
Good movie denzel donagood job in that movie. Thankyou so kinely. Laugh out loud
108 Mile
Eminem is great in this movie. I love how he keeps his roots.
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13Poetic Justice
Put it on netflix
ALWAYS BEEN MY favorite!
14Tupac - Resurrection
16Dangerous Minds
17New Jack City
Rawest movie ever nino brown
18Blood In, Blood Out
Great movie la unda
10 what a good movie good story for that time
19Above The Rim
20Hustle & Flow
22House Arrest
23City of God
Great movie bout the slums of Rio. Nothing's more hood than kids walkin round with guns haha
24Get Rich or Die Tryin'
This movie is just amazing I could watch it over and over again
Used to watch this all the time
26William Shakespeare's Romeo Juliet
27Do the Right Thing
28He Got Game
30King of Paper Chasin'
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33Set It Off
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38It Ain't Easy
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Jerry Brown: GOP must move out of their "reactionary cul-de-sac"
Although California's Democratic Governor Jerry Brown had harsh words about the entire political system on "Face the Nation," he saved his most striking criticism for the GOP. "I think the Republicans have to move out of that reactionary cul-de-sac that some of the more extreme members are pushing them," Brown told host Bob Schieffer. "There's an enforcement of discipline that's ideological and, as was mentioned today in The Washington Post, takes on the quality of a cult," the California governor said. (snip) "They're so hostile to millions and millions of people in this country, and while they can't vote, they have millions and millions of people who they're related to or who identify with them. And you just can't ignore 12 million people, particularly when they're picking our food, they're working in the hotels and restaurants, and now they're increasingly in very important jobs," Brown said. Lets just say it: The Republicans are the problem http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lets-just-say-it-the-republicans-are-the-problem/2012/04/27/gIQAxCVUlT_story.html (Washington Post )
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1. Cult is correct, they are a bad cult. His comment appears to refer to immigrants.
I thought the right shut up in California on that issue and retreated to their attacks on women, gays, the poor and disabled, but really they simply hate living people. They honor the dead and all they lived and died to defend with marching music and flags and put words in their mouths saying they'd approve of the GOP's current policies.
Appreciate the other part of the main link: However, Brown offered some praise of President Obama. "I have to say this: I've never seen a cooler, more reasoned, intelligent candidate and leader than Obama. This man, under pressure, shows a lot of grace and a lot of thoughtfulness, and that's going to serve him well," Brown said. The last link in the OP and the links it led to are also excellent. Thanks. |
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2. How nice. I think they should pull their
fucking heads out of their asses. It doesn't bother these idiots at all to ignore 12 million people. Democrats need to get a clue and bash them with that. Enough of fucking nice, these bastards are killing us.


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Need help building a tube linestage for my gainclone
I am trying to build a linestage for to connect between my DAC and my four channel TDA7294 amplifier to add the tube like warmth to the sound.
The tubes i have are 3 12ax7's 4 7025's 1 12at7 i built this http://www.hagtech.com/images/clarinetschem.gif and there was hum on all volumes levels even when the preamp was off, and there was i high level of noise. i am confused about making a srpp do i use 1 12ax7 for the top and bottom of the circuit and how do i elevate the heaters. do i ground the heater. or do i use a seperate tubes for each section that would be four tubes for 2 channels????? i bulit this circuit http://diyaudioprojects.com/Schemati...-Schematic.png i built it just like it said and for the power supply i used 280v from CRC filter and 12Vac for the heater. it turned on with super loud hum and became slightly less when the tube warmed up. i unplugged the ipod and it hums supper loud. sound does come out though. is there any simpler circuits out there i don't need any/much gain but i want low distortion. |
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None of the tubes you have on hand are really appropriate for a low gain line stage unless you want to use feedback. How about a 6CG7 or 6SN7 in standard common cathode?
Super loud hum sounds like bad filter capacitors or grounding problem. If the hum doesn't change with volume I suspect a power supply problem. Heater supply should be either referenced to ground or some elevated voltage. Can you post some pictures of the build? maybe something obvious will be visible.
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The tubes you have are all high gain and not suited to the job at hand.
A "unity" gain buffered volume control has the proper gain structure, but will not add that touch of 2nd order harmonic distortion you crave. IMO, you need low net gain common cathode topology and the ability to drive a relatively low downstream impedance. There are several ways to get those characteristics, but (IMO) the most economical is circuitry based on 12B4s. Any number of good 12B4 designs are available to you. I [naturally ] have uploaded my own design. You don't have to use the pseudo choke I/P filter PSU shown. A well filtered and reasonably well regulated 150 VDC supply of 50 mA. will do quite nicely. Also, a costly, "boutique", part need not be used in the O/P coupling cap. position BTW, the schematic shows how you "raise" a heater to suppress noise and/or avoid exceeding heater to cathode potential limits. Please observe it's done via a resistive voltage divider across B+ and ground.
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How do i add feedback to use 12ax7 How do i make the constant current source in The circuit you sent |
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If you are very concerned abut hum build a regulated 12V DC supply You said "low distortion" then why bother? The entire point here is that you like the sound of a tubes distortion products. Do you really need a volume control? |
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Simulink Design Verifier can generate test cases. The testing and verification tool TPT can be used for functional testing of Simulink models. Test is TPT can be complemented by DesignVerifier tests e.g. to increase model coverage. Reuse SLDV-tests in TPT. For the simple import of the Simulink Design Verifier tests into TPT convert the data using sldv2tpt.m Then use the functionality in TPT "Import test data as scenarios" for the batch import of all test cases.
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THE HUDSON VALLEY GAMELAN PRESENTS TWO EVENTS AT BARD COLLEGE, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, AND FRIDAY, APRIL 28 Bard events include the Gamelan's annual spring concert and a |
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.-The Hudson Valley Gamelan presents two musical evenings at Bard College. On Thursday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m. the gamelan will give its annual spring concert in Olin Hall. The performance, under the direction of Fulbright scholar-in-residence Ni Ketut Suryatini, feature guest artists I Nyoman Sumandhi and "The major event of the evening was a rare performance of gamelan music . . . a modern incarnation of Balinese music," wrote Peter Marshall in the Lakeville Journal Compass about the gamelan's December appearance at Bard. "It was a fascinating form of music making . . . this was a great chance for many to experience music from East Asia." The spring concert on Thursday, April 27, will feature guest artists I Nyoman Sumandhi and I Nyoman Suadin. The gamelan ensembles will play a style of twentieth-century Balinese music known as gamelan gong kebyar, a complex percussion-based ensemble music. Gamelan ensembles are traditionally composed of twenty to thirty musicians, who play metallophones, gongs, drums, and flutes. Balinese song and dance will accompany the music The shadow puppet performance, organized by Bard students on Friday, April 28, features the dalang (shadow puppet) master I Nyoman Sumandhi. The donations received from this performance will go to directly support Indonesian children at the orphanage Bina Harapan on the island of Java. There are twenty-eight children at the orphanage and school who range in age from eight to nineteen. They have been placed there due either to dire economic circumstances on the island or the loss of one or both parents. Garry Kvistad, the founder and proprietor of Woodstock Chimes and Anyone Can Whistle, placed the gamelan instruments on indefinite loan to Bard College to facilitate the performance of Indonesian music and dance. The instruments, made in Blaubatuh, Bali in 1978, were used to establish gamelan ensembles in Berkeley, California, and New Haven, Connecticut, prior to Kvistad's purchase of them in 1988. Kvistad founded the Gamelan Giri Mekar (Mountain Flower) in Woodstock, New York, which performed frequently in the Hudson Valley prior to joining with Bard students in Gamelan Chandra Kanchana (Golden Moon) to form the Hudson Valley Gamelan. Ni Ketut Suryatini is the director of the ensemble this academic year. I Nyoman Sumandhi is one of the most esteemed performers in Bali. He is a dalang, a shadow puppet master, and also performs the topeng, or mask dance. His father was the renowned dalang Bapak Rajeg. The shadow puppet theater, or Wayang Kulit, is regarded as the pinnacle of the arts in Indonesia. Dalangs are recognized as master artists as well as spiritual leaders. Becoming a dalang involves a mastery of traditional music, dance, and choreography, as well as the repertoire and theatrical techniques associated with the shadow puppet theater. Sumandhi is presently artist-in-residence at the Center for World Music, San Diego. I Nyoman Suadin, who was guest director of the Hudson Valley Gamelan last spring, is the artistic director of the Gamelan Mitra Kusuma in Washington, D.C., and teaches at the Eastman School of Music and Swarthmore College. He has been studying Balinese music and dance since the age of seven. Ni Ketut Suryatini, Fulbright scholar-in-residence at Bard College for the 1999-2000 academic year, is on the faculty of the College of the Performing Arts (STSI), the preeminent musical institution in Bali. She comes from a family of specialists in the gender wayang. Her brother, I Wayan Suweca, considered one of the finest Balinese musicians, was the musical director of the first professional gamelan ensemble in the United States. Suryatini, one of the first female graduates of the STSI, is a composer, playwright, singer, and dancer who has participated in five international performing arts tours to Japan, Europe, and Canada. The performances are sponsored by the Asian Studies, Dance, Music, Theater Arts, and Religion Programs at Bard College. For further information, call 914-758-7364. # # # (4.14.00) |
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Huygens's principle and rays in uniaxial anisotropic media. II. Crystal axis orientation arbitrary
JOSA A, Vol. 19, Issue 8, pp. 1674-1679 (2002)
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We continue and extend Paper I [Avendaño-AlejoM., J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 19, 1669–1674 (2002)] to the more general case where the crystal axis is not parallel to the surface normal. The procedures and the derivations follow those of Paper I. The result enables one to trace extraordinary rays in and out of a prism as well as through a crystal whose refracting surfaces are not planar.
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(080.0080) Geometric optics : Geometric optics
(260.1180) Physical optics : Crystal optics
(260.1440) Physical optics : Birefringence
Original Manuscript: December 10, 2001
Revised Manuscript: March 12, 2002
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Maximino Avendaño-Alejo and Orestes N. Stavroudis, "Huygens's principle and rays in uniaxial anisotropic media. II. Crystal axis orientation arbitrary," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 19, 1674-1679 (2002)
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The Dallas Mavericks keep bringing in the big names to coach their D-League affiliate the Texas Legends. Last season it was the first woman coach in the league, Nancy Lieberman. She decided to move up to the front office, so former NBA coach of the year Del Harris will step in, the team announced, the…
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Niseko explodes into life after the long winter season transforming into a natural wonderland. Wildflowers bloom, the rivers fill up with both trout and white water rafters, and the temperature rises to a comfortable 25 degrees. The local farms are in full swing producing fresh produce for the local restaurants. The perfect place to escape the summer heat and relax with nature.
Niseko Outdoors
Summer is the season of outdoor fun in Niseko. White water rafting on the local rivers is a great way to cool off and see the beauty of the area. The local golf courses offer great views of the surrounding mountains and are kept in superb condition. For the more adventurous, hiking the local mountains is a great way to get some exercise and the views from the peaks are not to be missed.
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Niseko is famous for the abundance of natural hot springs. Within the Niseko area there are over 15 different hot springs to relax in after a day on the slopes. Soaking in an outdoor bath with snow falling around you is an experience that is not to be missed.
- The Yumeguri Onsen Pass
The Yumeguri Onsen Pass can be purchased for 1,440 yen per person. This provides 3 tickets that can be used at 15 different onsens in the Niseko Area. The pass is valid for 180 days so you can use the pass at 3 different onsens or you can visit a single onsen multiple times.
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Relationship Spotting: Love and Mental Illness
By Gary • Jan 3rd, 2012 • Category: Advice, HEALTH, SEX AND RELATIONSHIPSIf you have ever seen the Frida Kahlo movie with Salma Hayek then you know what I am talking about. Sometimes love makes you a little crazy, and if you saw her eyebrows in the movie then you know what I mean by crazy. The problem with insanity though, is that most of the time people who are off their rocker don't realize it. So, I have devised this list of tips to help open your eyes. Ask yourself the following questions:
1. Have you ever found yourself sitting at home, cutting out printed Facebook photos of your girl/boyfriend to paste into a love collage while listening to Joan Osborne, and saying to yourself "If God really was one of us, he would bless my relationship with his golden tipped fingers," and then crying when you decide that tomorrow will finally be the day you actually introduce yourself to your said girl/boyfriend in the halls?
2. Have you ever carved or tattooed someone's name into any part of your body? Did you use a butter knife that he/she used to butter their croissant at IHOP?
3. When you masturbate do you actually think about the person you are with?
4. Have you ever driven by your girl/boyfriend's house over and over again? Then realize that you had broken up? Then realize that they moved away? Then realize that you were 7 years old when all this actually happened?
5. When your girl/boyfriend goes out with their friends, do you find yourself incessantly texting them? Then donning a wig and sunglasses at night to catch them out at a bar? Then roofie-ing yourself and introducing yourself to them as Samantha, trying to see if they will cheat on you with you?
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I have just tried to use the acronis forum, I'm now arranging to have some teeth pulled!
The problem is I installed true image 2010 and disk director on windows 7, when I opened disk director I got the BSOD and it took a while to recover my system. I have tries several times to uninstall disk director but the entry remains in control panel but is not shown in programmes, every attempt to remove it is shown as a restore point! I have tried to install DD from the cd but all I get is "copying files" "preparing to install" and then after some hard drive activity, nothing. The message " setup was interrupted before Disk doctor could be installed. You need to restart the installer to try again, this does not work. both of these programmes worked ok on XP Home.
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I have both those programs installed on my Vista machine ansd they work just fine, but they do not work on my Windows-7 PC. had to buy the version 11 and that works ok.
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True Image 2010 works fine it's disk director I have the problem with, I've just used Revo, thanks for the link rawprawn, and it seems to have done the trick, now to see if I can instaldisk director from the cd.
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Disk Director has installed first time, I knew I should have come straight here for the answer, thanks again guys,
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Cannot understand why you wanted to load it, I run it from the CD at boot as you only need it on the odd occasion. Just booting from the CD is all that's needed
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Shopping cart for special-needs children gets test drive in Turlock
For many parents of small children, the biggest hassle of grocery shopping is making sure the shelves are out of reach of grabby little hands while navigating a cart down the supermarket aisles.
But in the far too short time she had two of her three sons, Turlock resident Carolina Alfaro found a trip to the store a much greater challenge. Two sons, Diego and Adrian, had Zellweger syndrome, a disabling genetic disease that occurs in less than one in 100,000 births.
Typically, Alfaro waited to shop until her husband got home each day. But sometimes, she'd take one boy out while their grandmother or a therapist watched the other.
At the market, "I usually wasn't able to pick up more than a few things," she recalled. "I would push the wheelchair and carry one of the store's little red baskets on my right hand. I'd put a few groceries in the red basket and a few groceries in the bottom storage area of the wheelchair and a few in my son's lap."
Diego died in February 2009 at age 21/2, and Adrian followed in January 2011, just shy of his third birthday. But for Carolina, awareness of the needs of parents with disabled children and a desire to advocate for them remained.
In April, "I came across an online article that talked about Caroline's Cart, and it hit close to home for me."
Caroline's Cart is a shopping cart created for special-needs children. Its features include handles that swing back to provide convenient access to the seat, and a seat back with a 5-degree tilt for children with low muscle tone.
Alfaro began working to bring the carts to area stores, and her efforts helped place three of them in Modesto and Turlock.
"When I saw the article, I researched and realized that a lot of East Coast stores have Caroline's Carts available," Alfaro said Friday. "I went on Facebook pages and saw posts from parents who'd experienced the carts firsthand" and sang their praises.
"I had called all the grocery stores in Turlock and Modesto, and a few in Merced and Stockton, and there was nothing available regionally. I called Caroline's Cart and the only thing they knew of in California was at the Whole Foods in San Francisco. ... I wrote an email May 5 to Save Mart, talking about the article and my experiences and how I'd always been a faithful shopper at their store. Soon after, I heard from the store manager that they would consider getting a cart."
Friday, Alfaro was at the Save Mart on Geer Road in Turlock to see that store's cart get test rides from 7-year-old Katy Blair of Modesto and 6-year-old Hayven Smith of Oakdale, who have cerebral palsy. "Katy right away tried to hop on and was all smiles. She doesn't communicate verbally very much, but you could see from her face how excited she was," Alfaro said. "Hayven is very communicative, and as soon as she got on said, 'I love it.' "
Katy's mother, Marramonie Blair, also enjoyed the experience. "It was great, very easy to drive, and Katy loved it – being able to get in herself and buckle up." Blair said she usually doesn't take Katy to the grocery store unless it's an emergency. But since Save Mart now has a Caroline's Cart at its Pelandale Avenue store in Modesto, "this will make it more convenient to take her if I need to grab a couple of things. I don't need to pull out equipment from the car or wait until my husband is available."
The third cart in the area is at Trader Joe's on Dale Road in Modesto.
Alicia Rockwell, director of public affairs and communications for Save Mart, said the chain is looking to add the carts to other locations. "We've already had a couple of stores raise their hands and say, 'We want one.' Corporate would like to establish a cart centrally located in each of the markets we serve. We want to make sure there are enough to make them accessible in the area."
At the Geer and Pelandale stores, the carts have a special home at the front, with a sign that explains what they are, so parents don't mistake them as just another riding option for kids. "And we're monitoring them pretty closely," Rockwell said. "We always have an attendant go with the cart in and out of the store, so they're not left in the parking lot. Families can call ahead and we'll take the cart out to them, too.
"It's such an addition to our stores, and we're so grateful to Carolina Alfaro."
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Cardinals manager Mike Matheny will leave camp in Jupiter, Florida to head back to St. Louis for a procedure on his ailing back. MLB.com's Jenifer Langosch has the details:
The procedure, which is called a microdisectomy, will help alleviate the pain that has been caused by a ruptured disc. A fragment from the disc that is pressing against a nerve will be removed.
Matheny will miss the club's games on Monday and Tuesday but is expected to return to Jupiter, Fla., on Wednesday, which is an off day for the team.
In Matheny's absence, bench coach Mike Aldrete will become the active manager. First base coach Chris Maloney takes Aldrete's spot as bench coach, and Memphis Redbirds manager Ron Warner takes Maloney's spot at first base.
Matheny, who has not only suffered from back problems but countless concussions as well, was in the news recently as an advocate for improving catcher safety.
- historiophiliac - Mar 9, 2013 at 9:03 PM
Thank you for making a post just for paperlions. He needs it.
- proudlycanadian - Mar 9, 2013 at 9:07 PM
Matheny will be back in a moment.
- mungman69 - Mar 10, 2013 at 3:33 AM
And Larry Walker saw Satin? What the
f¥€k was he smoking?
- proudlycanadian - Mar 10, 2013 at 8:23 AM
I have had that happen to me before. I have entered a comment in one thread only to have it show up in the wrong place. Otherwise your joke is lame. As far as Aviles is concerned, his Red Sox team is not fond of him with good reason.
- stlouis1baseball - Mar 11, 2013 at 9:42 AM
Purple Microdot.
- mungman69 - Mar 10, 2013 at 3:34 AM
Really Satin saw Larry Walker in his eyes. Easter is on a Sunday this year.


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Two named Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers fellows12/6/13Two engineering faculty members have each been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Hewlett-Packard gift to benefit Institute for CyberScience7/30/12The Institute for CyberScience at Penn State has received a gift-in-kind of 50 graphics processing units (GPUs) from Hewlett-Packard Company to support its interdisciplinary research in the science of computing. These GPUs, valued at $100,000, will assist the institute's computer modeling collaborations spanning many departments and programs.
Institute for CyberScience to expand computing power for research6/25/08The computer that once filled a room is now on your desktop, the memory is on your key chain, but there are still projects that require computing and storage capacity far beyond a room full of desktops. The Penn State Institute for CyberScience (ICS@PSU) aims to advance discovery through computing and information science.


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Behold my blue cup crown!
I wouldn't call myself a Toby Keith fan, but I'll definitely be leading a drunken sing-along of this at my next party.
Bonus: Scavenger hunt! See if you can find - Craig Ferguson - Drunk Princess Leia - Mostly-Naked Wheelbarrow Race - Red Solo Hash Pipe